Means for moistening the tops of welts of stockings



Sept. 3, 1929. -c. T. GRIFFITH ET AL 1,727,203

I MEANS FOR MOISTENING THE TOPS OF WELTS OF STOCKINGS Filed Feb. 17, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Sept. 3, 1929. c GRIFFITH ET AL 1,727,203

MEANS FOR MOISTENING THE TOPS OF WELTS OF STOCKINGS Filed Feb. 17, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Sept. 3, 1929.

STATES CHARLES T. GRIFFITH AND JOHN L. FAGAN, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

ASSIGNORS TO PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ, INCORPORATED, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR MOISTENING- THE TOPS OF VTELTS OF STOCKINGS.

Application filed February 17, 1926. Serial No. 88,971.

()ur invention relates to certain improvements in drying apparatus for stockings and like materials.

The object of our invention is to provide means for moistening the tops or welts of stockings as they enter a drying apparatus, so as to prevent the stockings buckling or rolling at the open end or top.

The invention is particularly advantageous in drying stockings in which the tops or welts are of silk or lisle and cotton, as

cotton dries out more quickly than either si k or lisle, and this uneven drying causes the buckling and rolling of the tops of the stockings.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of our improved means for moistening the tops or welts of stockings;

Fig. 2 is a side View;

Fig. 3 is a plan view; and

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view showing a stocking on a form.

This apparatus is preferably placed directly in front of the opening 8 in a drier 7, through which the stocking forms with the stockings thereon are conveyed by a continuous operated carrier, the stockings be ing removed from the forms after they leave the drying chamber, and other stockings are placed on the forms as they travel from the outlet end of the drier to the inlet end.

The moistening apparatus consists of two rollers 1-1, spaced a given distance apart to allow the forms with the stockings thereon to pass between the rollers. The rollers 11 are mounted on spindles 2-2, secured to brackets 33, projecting from the base or bed of the drying apparatus.

Below each roller 1 is a cup 4. The cup is mounted on the spindle 2 and has a petcock 5 to draw off the surplus water. The rollers 1-1 are covered with any suitable material which will form a wick to keep the surfaces of the rollers moist at all times. The rollers are preferably padded, and the pad ding is enclosed in knitted cover as shown in the drawing. The lower end of each wick extends into a cup and preferably over the top of each roller, as shown.

Water supply pipes 6-6 are located above the rollers and communicate with a suitable water supply pipe. In each pipe is a valve to regulate the amount of water discharged from the pipes into the rolls. As the water drops into the upper surface of the rolls, it is absorbed by the wick, the surplus water passing into the cups below the rollers.

As the forms a with the stockings b thereon pass through the space between the rolls, they turn the rolls on the spindles and the rolls moisten the tops or welts 0 of the stock ings so as to prevent the cotton portions of the tops or welts drying out more quickly than the silk or lisle.

We find by experiments that stockings that usually roll or buckle in drying come out of the drier perfectly flat and in correct condition, due to the moistening of the welts of the stockings prior to their entering the drier.

We claim:

1. The combination of two moistening rolls spaced apart for the passage of a form with a stocking thereon; vertical spindles on which the rolls are mounted; a cup under each roller; wicks covering the rollers and extending into the cups; and means for supplying water to moisten the wicks.

2. The combination of two brackets spaced apart; a vertical spindle on each bracket; a cup on each spindle; a roller on each spindle above the cup; a wick covering the top and sides of each roller, said wick extending into a cup; and water supply pipes above the rollers and arranged to drip water into the rollers to keep the wicks moist, the rollers being turned as the stocking forms with the stockings thereon pass through the space between the rollers.

CHARLES T. GRIFFITH. J. L. FAGAN.

CERTIFICATE OF CCRRECTEON.

Patent No. 1,727,203. I Granted September 3, 1929 to CHARLES T. GRIFFITH ET AL.

it is hereby certified that error aepears in the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: In the grant and in the heading to the printed specification and drawings, title of invention, for "Means for Moistening the Tons of Welts of Stockings" rend "Means for Moistening the Tops or Welts of Stockings"; and that the said Letters Patent shouiti he read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 1st day of October, A. D. 1929.

M. J. Moore, (Sea!) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

